RIM Lashes Out Against One App’s Retreat From BlackBerry

Apr 18, 2012 12:04 pm ET

By Will Connors

A few days ago the video voicemail application maker YouMail announced on its blog that it was suspending further work on its BlackBerry app, citing a “steady exodus” of BlackBerry users to other smartphones.

The company even posted a handy chart showing the decline in daily BlackBerry registrations for their app.

“It’s sad, but on many days we’re now getting fewer [BlackBerry] users than Windows Phone 7 users, and we don’t even have a Windows Phone 7 app!” the blog post read.

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